Pie
11/06/12 12:59AM
Things You Can do to Help
If you're not overly familiar with the tagging system / don't feel knowledgable enough to directly assist with tags I do have a few things you could possibly do to help chip away at the huge mess that is this site right now. None of this is like... being demanded, just a polite request to possibly lighten the load / speed up the cleaning.


1) Go through the duplicate tag and either report them as dupes or if you happen to be a moderator, go ahead and delete them (let me know the reasons why in the pop up though just for my clarity)

2) Go through the source_needed tag and using Google Image Source attempt to source some of them. I've had some success with a few of these because frankly, old Skaia was either a bit lazy or just not concerned with sourcing yet. But we are. If you manage to source something, don't forget to remove the source_needed tag. Sometimes it doesn't work, and that's alright. But given the fact that I've offhandedly sourced about 20 pictures leads me to believe the source_needed tag could be much smaller, and much more credit can be given.

3) If you do see any unsourced imaged, please slap the source_needed tag on them so that people attempting option 2 have more to potentially source.

4) check links to see if they are broken or not. for links you are unable to correctly fix, we do now have a broken_source tag to be added to such images. DO NOT REMOVE THE SOURCE SIMPLY FOR BEING BROKEN. Working links are of course preferable, but broken ones do serve as some sort of credit to the artist even if they aren't entirely helpful. If you are able to fix the link to the new source of the image, please do so.

I will continue working on the tags, the final part of the dump should be coming by tomorrow and then we will be caught up in uploads at least. If you do want to help with tagging, familiarize yourself with our tag list, and also check out the tag thread for new ideas, it would definitely be appreciated whatever you can chip in and do.

My goal is to have a sparkling clean fully functional as sourced as possible bustling imageboard by Christmas... but I wouldn't say no to sooner.

Thanks for the help guys.
Nyre
11/06/12 03:51AM
...the google search feature is the best thing ever...

...if it's okay I'm going to have that be my contribution :D
Pie
11/06/12 04:07AM
That's wonderfully ok Nyre, thank you so much.
Tropylium
11/06/12 07:25AM
An easy bunch of pics to source are those with an artist tag, BTW. Taking 15854 for example, one could just go dig around costly's sites for this particular Aradia pic…
Snuffleheim
11/06/12 07:37AM
RE Option 4: I can see an issue arising with old pics with borked sources, ie sources that were taken down a long time ago so that nobody knows for sure if the source even exists or not.
Pie
11/06/12 08:35AM
I'd still rather they be there. Blank sources look bad. They were originally put there for a reason, I've got to believe the cases in which they are just no longer in existence outweigh any potential cases of the source being wrong. If someone comes and proves credit at an incorrectly sourced picture, then we can take it down and fix it.
Snuffleheim
11/06/12 09:55AM
I'm actually thinking of old stuff that's already unsourced and we can't find the source...

Also, to the general populace: When tagging dupes PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT WITH A LINK TO THE FIRST ONE. It'll help. A lot.
Pie
11/06/12 09:59AM
I am really confused, number 4 is just about having a broken_source tag so that people know there isn't anything to be found at that source and it's more for credit purposes.

Old unsourced stuff that we can't source will just get a source_needed tag as usual.
adminuser
11/06/12 10:51AM
Snuffleheim said:
I'm actually thinking of old stuff that's already unsourced When tagging dupes PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT WITH A LINK TO THE FIRST ONE. It'll help. A lot.


Better is to actually flag it for deletion then put the duplicate url in the reason. Mods/admins can see it in the admin panel.
Duck
11/06/12 12:25PM
I've found broken source addresses are actually useful in helping track down the new address, especially on tumblr.
Snuffleheim
11/06/12 09:06PM
adminuser said:Better is to actually flag it for deletion then put the duplicate url in the reason. Mods/admins can see it in the admin panel.

That works too. Just so long as there's a link somewhere visible.
Pie
11/07/12 01:59AM
another thing someone can do if they care to is to change all instances of PZahhak and Pnitram to Horuss and Rufioh for me.
Timeghoul
11/07/12 02:54AM
done
Pie
11/07/12 03:31AM
Thank you.
Timeghoul
11/07/12 03:51AM
You're welcome. I'll check the tag daily to see if there's any more that come in and need changing.
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